Poems

We are sharing "kizuna311" on Facebook with my friends.
And I heard many poems were read by some actors and actress in Japan.
Most of them were the poems that we learned in school when we were in elementary school or Jr. high school. So I already knew those poems but at that time, we tried to understand what the poems are saying and we discussed many hours. But now I found that I didn't understand those meanings.
Maybe only me in the class didn't understand or I understand as a teenager as much as possible but now I really understand how those poems are great.
And how they speak to my heart.
I'm sure that everyone has different impression and we don't feel the same because our experiences in lives are all different. That is one of interesting things of poems and I feel this way because I became 28 years old and finally I could have enough experiences to feel those poems...
I'm glad that I could meet them again in this timing. If not I wouldn't notice about power of poems and I wouldn't have chance to try to read them again.

Thank you "kizuna311".
"Amenimomakezu"(=Strong in the rain) I think this is the one of most famous Japanese poems.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-EdVR53lVk&feature=related

"Ikiru"(=live)  I remember a lot when I learned this poem in the classroom.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7QU3AL6TDQ&feature=related

"Matteru" (=Waiting) This was new poem for me.... but I couldn't stop crying.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVF19ajCJnY&feature=newsweather